The Birth Of ActiveX
Microsoft won another marketing battle in the object wars last week by finally agreeing to submit its ActiveX technology to the Open Group for ratification as a de facto industry standard. ActiveX in...
View ArticleHow to Recover Your Data from a Dead Laptop Hard Drive
A simple laptop enclosure adapter Most laptop owners think that laptop hard drive recovery is a very costly thing to pay for. This is actually not a situation to panic, and really isn’t as expensive as...
View ArticleCommon Reasons for Hard Drive Failure
So something has gone wrong with your hard drive and you do not know what to do. Here are some of the most common reasons for hard drive failure. Head/media collisions are responsible for a great...
View ArticleNotebook Computers Coming On Stronger Than Ever
As you are about to leave the office for a 10 o’clock business appointment with that important client, you do a quick checklist to ensure that you have everything. You open your briefcase and there it...
View ArticleJava And Embedded Were Always The Best Choice
Some aspects of the Java language are very attractive to embedded designers, especially when compared with the other object-oriented alternative: C++. According to Carl Dichter, senior technical...
View ArticleJava Is The Beanie Baby?
(Awesome stuff!) Is Java nothing more than the beanie baby of programming languages? Really? Java may indeed be man’s best response to the age-old problem of creating cross-platform networked...
View ArticleCompanies Tend To Choose Linux Servers For Specialized Applications
“We look for applications to be integrated into a solution, not the other way around,” says Deresinski, who has spent most of his 13 years in the printing industry working with computers and networking...
View ArticleGet On The CASE With The Right Tools
While corporations are rapidly adopting CASE tools to build business applications, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate among the offerings. Many CASE tools boast flashy graphical...
View ArticleHow To Survive Your Next Hard Drive Failure
Your hard drive never seems to fail at a good time. Usually, you’re up to your eyeballs in work and the last thing you need is a broken computer. Alas, Murphy and his Law are always looking for...
View ArticleSDL Action
A new generation of tools based on SDL combines graphical easy-to-learn management of software with automatic generation of documentation and modifications. The code is optimized for embedded...
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